Quilling-machine.



B,EAsTwn0D,JR& B.S0HIBLER,JL QUILLING MAGHINE. I

' APPLIUATION FILED FEB. 15, 1 906.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

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BY m ATTORNEYS B .EASTWQOD, J11. & B. SGHIBLER, JR- QUILLING MACHINE;

APPLIOATIQN Hum FEB.15, 190a.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

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BENJAMIN EASTWOOD, JR, A BERNARD SCHIBLER, JR, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,ASSIGNORSTO THE BENJAMIN EASTWOOD COMPANY, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,

A CORPORATION OE NEW J RsEY.

- QUILLI G-MAC INE.

erson, Passaic county, New. Jersey, ave in vented certain new and usefulImprovements in Quilling Machines ,and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description 0 same, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of referencemarked thereon, which form a part'of this specification. V Thisinventionrelates to that general class of quilling or cop Winding machinesinwhich the windin of the cop is effected by rotating the same re l theattenuating or building-up of the cop is effected by advancingthethread-guide relatively to the cop. 1 r

Our present lnvention is directed particularly to, first, the means forOscillating and gradually advancing thethread-guide relatively to thecop being wound; second, the clutch connections between the spindles andtheirdriving means,thisfeature being an improvement on aclutch mechanismdis-v closed in the patent to Adsit, fi 757,081; and, third, themeansfor supplying'thethread to the quills.

Figure 1 of theaccompanyingdrawin sis an end elevation of ourimproved'quil n machine. Fig. 2 is a plan viewofithe en portion of themachine shown in- Fig. '1, the scale being slightly larger than that ofFig. 1

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the machine taken in a planeb'etween theobserver and thewinding unit shown in Fig. 2; Figs. land 5are sectional and frontviews, respectively, of the means for oscillatingand effecting the gradual advanceof-the thread guide; Fig.6 is aviewlillustrating theclutch' connection for the spindlesfand, ,Fig. 7 isa view partly inside elevation andpartlyin,

section of the thread-supplying means.

In the drawings, the standarda; rails 5; intermediate rails c; bracketsd;n1ain driveshaft 0; fast and loose pulleys f; and ulley g are or maybe all. substantiallyasan for the purposes set forth in'the abovereferred to. V r p h designates horizontal bolsters supported patent toAdsit Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed February 15,1906. Serial No. 301,138.

the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to a whichit appertains to make and use the atively to the thread-guide whilePatented Oct. 6, 1908.

by stems twin the rails c. In each bolster is journaled aspindle-driving shaft 3' carrying a whirl 7c at one end, engaging a beltZwhich extends over the pullley g and its counterpart (not shown) at theother end of the machine, and at the other end a clutch member m'whichisa collar on the shaft is formed with a tapered longitudinally extendinglug or tongue n. r

0 designates the spindles, the same being j ournaled in thelrails b andat their rear ends in theshaftsj. On eachspindle is an annularly groovedcollar 1) formed with a tapered tongue or lug qprojecting toward thetongue. or lug nof collar m, said collar p being the counterpart clutchmember of clutch-member m;

this arrangement is to cause the shaft j,

which is continually rotating, to start its spindle 0 gradually when thelatter is thrown into movement, so saving a sudden strain on the threadbeing wound when the s indle is j pushed back, the clips firstiact on te collar m as a sort of friction clutch, the spindle taking on therotary movement of the shaft y' with more or less increasing speed untilfinally the tongues g and n abut and both the spindle and shaft rotatetogether at the same speed. The free ends of the clips 1" are turnedoutwardly or flared; thus, the rotary action which the spindle assumesmerely as the resultof frictional contact between said clips and-part mis itself a gradually increas ing one. i i

s is a push-rod controlling each spindle, the same carrying a fork twhich engages in the annular groove of thecollar p of the spindle andbeing normally pressed outwardly by a spiral s ring a coiled between acollar 1; on

the pus -rod and a rail w of the frame of the machine.

w is a notched stopv on the rail 6 which, being engaged by a finger yprojecting from the push-rod, holds the push-rod back in the positionwhere the spindle is clutched with shaft 3'. z-designates thethread-guides, one

for each spindle, and l the thread-guide-advancing-rod, both beingarranged to move freely in a longitudinal direction in the rail b, whichthey penetrate; the thread-guide also penetrates and is supported in therail w. The thread-guide-advancing-rod carries the usual cop engagingfriction wheel 2, and

' it is connected with the thread-guide by the usual fork 3 carried bythe latter and engaging between nuts 4 on the threaded portion 5 of saidrod.

Each thread-guide rests on a small grooved worm wheel 6, the severalworm wheels for each row of winding units being fixed on a rock shaft 7journaled in the standards a. In order to permit adjustment laterallyand at the same time secure the worm-wheels against free movementlongitudinally of shaft 7, we prefer to secure each worm wheel by aU-shaped spring 6 which is slipped into the annular groove 6 of a boss 6on the worm-wheel, the boss being cut through to its bore in its grooveat one side so that the spring may bear against a flat 6 d on the shaft7. As usual, when the thread-guide has been caused to feed outwardly tothe extent necessary to complete a cop by the friction wheel 2 in thereciprocations of the parts 1 and 2 intermittently engaging the rotatingcop, the operator presses down on the friction wheel 2, causing the rod1 to tilt in the rail 6 as a fulcrum whereby to disengage its threadfrom the worm wheel 6, whereupon rod 1 and the thread-guide connectedtherewith may be pushed backward and reset. In order to prevent thethreaded rod from being unshipped from the worm wheel 6 at this time, aforked guide 8 carried by rail w and straddling the rod 1, is provided.

The worm wheel 6 above referred to takes the place of the forkheretofore usually used, and, in addition to several other advantages,it avoids the up and down rocking effect to which the threaded-rod 1,and consequently, more or less, the thread-guide-rod, were subjected.

The rock-shafts 7 are oscillated in the following manner: 9 is a leverfulcrumed in one of the standards a. Each arm of this lever is connectedwith the shaft 7 by a link 10 and a band 11 extending over and securedto the periphery of a band wheel 12 on shaft 7. Tension on the parts 10and 11 is normally maintained by a spiral spring 13 which connects thestandard a with a band 14 passing over a band-wheel 15 in the directionreverse to the band 11. Thus as the lever 9 rocks,

it causes the shafts 7 to also rock in suchmanner as to alternately movethe rows of thread-guide-advancing-rods 1 outwardly. The rocking of theshaft 9 is effected from the shaft 0 by a worm 16 on shaft 6, a wormwheel 17 on a shaft 18 journaled in a bracket 19, a cam 20 on shaft 18,a lever 21 fulcrumed in the standard a and a link 22 connecting levers21 and 9.

23 is the usual su erstructure for supporting the supply bobbins andtheir accessory mechanisms. In the present instance, the bobbins 24 aresupported in an inverted position, each directly above the spindle whichit supplies, by being arranged on a fixed spindle or skewer 25 dependingfrom one of the rails 26 of the superstructure 23. Any suitable meansfor keeping the bobbin against downward displacement, such as the bobbincap 27 containing a bent plate spring 28 which engages in an annulargroove 29 in the spin dle 25 may be provided.

30 and 31 are thread-guides to prevent too much ballooning of thethreads between the bobbins and the spindles.

In devising this arrangement we have had in mind two well knownarrangements of su pply bobbins for machines of this character, to wit,the one where the bobbin rotates on a horizontal axis, and the otherwhere the bobbin stands vertically and discharges upwardly. Our presentarrangement dill'erentiates from both of these and results in at leastthree advantages, to wit, first, leading the thread directly, withoutguide-rods etc. changing its course, and in the most practical,convenient and accessible manner, from the supply, to the quill; second,the ability to start the machine instantanemlsly at full speed withoutbreaking the thread, which of course can not be done in the case of ahorizontal supply bobbin, where inertia and bearing-friction must bereckoned on; and third, a uniform and regular pull-ofl' or feed, withoutregard to what part of the bobbin is discharging at that time, whichlatter feature seems to be due to the combined. effects of gravity andthe tendency of the thread to balloon between the quill and bobbin, thethread-coils as their original spooling tension is caused to releaseliterally falling away from the bobbin, even at the angle between itsbody and lower flange, so that there is no catching of or suddenresistance on the thread at any time. So far as em loying the bobbin capto prevent the end coi s from catching in the angle represented by thebody and lower flange of the bobbin is concerned, We may thus evendispense with such bobbin cap, though it is of course nec essary if thebobbin heads are not without roughness.

The operation is substantially the same as in the case of the Adsitmachine herein before referred to, the spindles (clutched with theirdrive shafts) rotating and thus drawing off the thread from the supplyand winding it on the cops while the thread guides are reciprocatedthrough the threaded rods 1 from the oscillating worm-wheels 6 andsimultaneously advanced to effect the lengthening of the cop by thefriction wheels 2 intermittently turning the threaded rods 011 the wormwheels as, in their reciprocations, they bring up against the woundcops. When any cop is fully wound, the cone 32 on the forward and breakthe spindle clutch, stop ping the rotation of the corresponding spin-Practical application of our improvements has demonstrated that therebymachines of this kind may be not only run at a speed much higher thanmachines at present in use,

but that the machine may be preci itously set V to full speed, allwithout brea 'ng or burning the threads and causing them at at any timeto feedoff more copiously than the quills can take them up.

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new anddesireto secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a quilling machine, the combination, with the frame, of a rotaryspindle, a longitudinally reciprocating thread-guide, a threaded rodconnected with said threadguide to move therewith longitudinally, and

' an oscillatory part having a peripherally serrated portion engagedperipherally by said threaded rod, substantially as described.

2. In a quilling machine, the combination,

with the frame, of a rotary spindle, a longitudinally reciprocatingthread-guide, a

threaded rod connected with said threadguide to move therewithlongitudinally, a

rock-shaft, and a worm Wheel on said rockshaft engaged eripherally bysaid threaded rod, substantia ly as described.

3. In a quilling machine, the combination, with the frame, of a rotaryspindle, a longitudinally reciprocating thread-guide, a threaded rodconnected with said threadguide to move therewith longitudinally, arock-shaft, a worm wheel on said rock-shaft en aged eripherally by saidthreaded rod, an a for ed guide carried by the frame and straddling saidthreaded rod, substantially as described.

In testimony, that We claim the fore oing, We havehereunto set our handsthis 6t day of February, 1906.

BENJ. EASTWOOD, JR. BERNARD SCHIBLER, JR.

Witnesses JOHN W. STEWARD, W D. BELL.

